Enjoy this slideshow of some of our activities from mid-June to mid-October 2017.
Child at Shellfest Festival at Camano Island State Park, playing “Where do I live in the Intertidal.”
Karen teaching families about plankton at the Family Outdoor Discovery Day.- Milla demonstrating with a model watershed what happens with machinery oils, animal wastes, and chemical residues in our rainy climate, at the Skagit River Salmon Festival
- Child playing the "Wheel of Ecology" at the National Lighthouse Day
- Team SWS @ National Lighthouse Day
- Kelly @ Junior Ranger Program
Barnacle Bonanza" - Working with Sea Grant to trap European Green Crab - after finding first one in Whidbey's Lagoon Point in September 2017.
Field trips are an important part of our training classes (where each year 20-50 people take 100 hours of training in order to become SWS members)
This fall, the 2017 class took a field trip to the Stilliguamish River, learning about log jams from Tamera Neuffer, education outreach coordinator of the Stillaguamish Tribe.
- Stilliguamish River field trip - fall 2017
- Stilliguamish River field trip - fall 2017
- Stilliguamish River field trip - fall 2017
Each summer, SWS Camano and Whidbey volunteers gather for an annual picnic -- to share fun, laughter, great food and views, and a hike in the surrounding environment.
This August, we met at the Picnic Shelter at Camano Island State Park.
- picnic fun - summer 2017
- picnic ful - summer 2017
- picnic fun - summery 2017
- picnic fun - summer 2017
- picnic fun - summer 2017
- picnic fun - summer 2017
